 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 páginas
...airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death : Oft, as the mountain larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air: In genial spring, beneath the qmVring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...naked proves. Ver, 1 29, The fowler lifts his levell'd tube on high. Oft, as in airy rings they slrlm the heath, The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...short thunder breaks the frozen sky : 130 oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, the clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death : oft, as the mounting...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, 135 where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, the patient... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 páginas
...a short thunder breaks the frozen sky: 130 Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death • Oft, as the mounting...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, beneath the quiv'riug shade, 13d Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...short thunder breaks the frozen sky ; 1 30" Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death ; Oft, as the mounting...prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. 1 34. In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe aleng the mead,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 páginas
...his eye; : .( Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : , . ^ Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden...fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade*, Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
 | 1817 - 494 páginas
...thunder breaks the frozen sky; Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lap»irings feel the leaden death : Oft, as the mounting larks...prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air, Of the snipe (scolopax gallinago), which becomes a prey to the fowler in this and the following month,... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 páginas
...Ofl, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous Lapwings feel the leaden death : Oft, as lire mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. POPE'S WIFD.SO a FOREST. Buffon, with his usual sagacity, observes, that thf* bird held a place between... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 páginas
...skim the heath, The elamorous lapwings feel the leaden death l Oft, as the mounting larks their nutes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. In genial spring, heneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapoors hreathe along the mead, The patient fisher... | |
 | 1821 - 444 páginas
...Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky; Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous Lapwings feel the leaden death : Oft, as the mounting...larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little-lives in air. The land-rail (rallus crex) takes up its abode in wild heaths, or among corn and... | |
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And lonely woodcocks haunt the watery glade. He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye ; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden death : Oft, as the mounting larks... 
